Category: Films

Crave! episode 67: The Spy Who Dumped Me, LBJ, Taylor Swift, the Bay City Rollers, and Jim Glennie

Crave! has sent intrepid guest reviewer Debbie to Florida this week to cover Taylor Swift’s show at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, for a sneak preview of the Reputation tour that will be coming to New Zealand in November. Steve…

Crave! episode 66: Mission Impossible — Fallout, Wellington Paranormal, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again, Ant-Man & The Wasp

Steve and Simon are in agreement this week about Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again, a film that has managed to delight even the hardest of critics’ hearts. Wellington Paranormal, the new TV spinoff from What We Do In The…

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE FALLOUT: darker, more thrilling, and better than before

There are action movies and there are action movies, and Mission Impossible Fallout is purely and simply one of the best action films I’ve ever seen. The adrenalin rush is almost constant, so much so that you feel spent well…

Crave! episode 65: Incredibles 2, The Bamboos, Sicario: Day Of The Soldado

Incredibles 2, the sequel to, well, Incredibles, has finally arrived, and Simon and Steve ask just how incredible it really is, and find it to be, well, not entirely credible. Simon’s been talking to Lance Ferguson, Kiwi songwriter with Australian…

SICARIO: DAY OF THE SOLDADO – a rare thing, a second instalment that’s well done

We’ll start with the movie, and leave the politics till a little later. Yes, there is politics here. Just as Black Panther was both a superhero film and a commentary on the past and present status of black culture, Sicario:…

JURASSIC WORLD FALLEN KINGDOM – the story moves on, but stays the same

So where did we leave matters at the end of 2015’s Jurassic World? The Mosasaurus had just emerged from the Jurassic World lake to devour the Indominus Rex, the T-Rex and Blue the velociraptor- which had attacked the Indominus –…